day-log / biking in new old places, lunch

Just got back from biking around my new neighborhood, and into Beverly, the next town over. Its very nice out, and the air is cool enough that you need a light jacket, even while biking, which I love. I meandered through the curving streets, up and down slight hills, with no plan in mind. My phone was tucked away in my backpack, I didn't need it. I didn't look at it the whole time I was out. That felt really good. In fact, I still haven't looked at it since getting back. Most of the places I looked at were closed for Indigenous Peoples' day, which probably saved me a significant amount of money and the burden of biking back with a much heavier backpack. I did pass by a record store I haven't been to in a while, as well as a thrift store I want to check out. I stopped at bonny breads, a bakery my friend had talked about years ago that I never got around to trying, really just because I never lived this close to it until now. I stopped in and had a chicken salad sandwich on a brioche…